Heads up!

I learned Japanese on 4chan. As far as I know, /jp/ still has a treasure trove of learning material if you want to take up the task. How funny to see people discussing it as though it were a terrorist website while I mainly remember it as the place where I spent my youth talking about anime with other lonely nerds.

The issue would arise that by shutting the likes of 4Chan down due to radicalisation, more sites similar to 4Chan would pop up. They'd be fighting a losing battle, and even then 4Chan could just do what the Pirate Bay does and hide the servers in the Cloud/in the air.

For example, have to look at Infowars and Alex Jones. Shut that down, it popped up elsewhere under a new name. Shut down Alex Jone's facebook pages, more popped up for a while. He's still getting his messages out to people, and as much as the likes of Facebook can close pages and sites down, there are places he can go still.

the question tho isn't does it still pop up, it's how easy it is for people to access it. Of course it's a game of whackamole except after a while it becomes harder and harder for the average person to find it.

In aus security forces are monitoring the far rightso much that they're movingto more and more underground me1ans of communicating, which is good! It means they have a smaller reach and are likely to recruit ndw members.

i used 4chan to find snuff films as a teen. It's not a place worth romanticising

What?

Okay...I understand that people are worried about missing out on the less alt-rightish content that *chan boards put out. The memes,the lulz, the copypastas, and the legal adult pornz (I don’t care about the Shota/Loli fetish as long as no actual kids were harmed by the creation and distribution of said content). But if the argument about alt-righters flocking to another website is an accurate prediction, then all the fun stuff of imageboards will no doubt end up in somewhere that isn’t a Nazi Cesspit.

Don't want to know what? They said they went to 4chan and watched what I can only guess were gore threads full of suicides and deaths. Wasn't anything too vague. Morbid curiosity gets you every now and then. I mostly just went there for porn, you laugh you lose, and comic book story threads on /co/. Still go every now and then. Just don't go to /pol/ and you'll usually avoid the worst of it.

To be honest, I'm pretty damn ambivalent on this subject. I'm all for hate groups losing private platforms, but inviting the government to censor or forcibly remove websites unless they break the law is setting a precedent I don't like, and also useless because those sites will just spring up elsewhere, hosted in places with more lax laws than the US. It isn't just a chan board problem either. 4chan has good parts and bad parts, same as any other website. Heck, places like /fit/ and /co/ and /lit/ are pretty chill.

Will Tumblr shut down and remove nazi, white nationalist, or other radicalized and extreme material from their platform instead of banning porn to sanitize the platform for advertisers? Will someone working for reddit finally shut down /r/the_donald? Or how about half-baked and borderline insane propaganda disguised as "hidden" conspiracies on Youtube? I know I fucking hope so.

But for now, quarantining inflammatory content and letting private platforms remove content is all we really can do, and there's other effective methods as well for trying to de-radicalize people who have been swept into propaganda, or potential actors.

I AM TAKANUVA, TOA OF LIGHT!You'll be hearing my name someday, whenever people talk about heroes - Takua!

Weird how Instagram is owned by Facebook and yet they aren't doing anything about this.

that's not weird at all, considering that Facebook has been just as shitty and awful for at least as long.
re: the subject of this thread, I don't think governments should ever shut down private websites, but then I also don't think governments should exist, so that's not surprising.

I was being sarcastic.

Though I do find it curious that while Facebook has been working against right wing misinformation (not to a satisfactory degree though) they seem to have done nothing with Instagram.

There's actually a huge issue on Reddit right now. And something that has been angering many people for a while. Basically there's quite a few subreddits, that clearly break the terms of agreements and the rules and have yet to be banned.

Yeah, with Facebook, it's certainly a "I'll believe it when I see it" sort of deal. Their reputation is pretty irreparably damaged in my eyes but if they're serious about banning that sort of stuff, then good. Would love to see Youtube do the same, but that's even more of a tall order.